The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-08-04

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HE WHEELING DAI
a WHEELING ARTIST.
MRS. RAMMELsBERG TALKS
About Hor operate Career in the Old
World The characteristics and Pecu.
l~tarttteA OF European Audiencos-Tho
Musical Culture OF Americans, etc.
When one mentions Moscow and Wheel.
Ing In the same breath there Ia nc imme.
diate realization Of the vast distance that
separates the Offering pinnacles Of the
kremlin from the modest church spires Of
this city. But take up your geography
and measure the versts from Moscow
through TO Vienna and the kilomsters
from Venice through Rome and France,
and the miles over tho channel through
England and the leaguss Of the lonely
ocean expanse, and the distance from New
York to Wheeling, and | twill be seen that
nearly one.hali Of the globe has been cir.
cled. Such was the route Of Mrs. Kate
Wheat ammelsberg [Madame Rolia),
who reached this city on Tuesday at noon.
She left Moscow June ~ and was travel.
ing al the time, except q stay OF two weeks
at Palermo, where she was employed In
arranging her apartments and affairs
Tor the long voyage hons. At Rome she
stopped Tor her son, who was attending
school in that city.
THE OCEAN TRIP.
In an interview with q Representative
Of the IsrRLLlaRNcEg, she expressed her
lively satisfaction In having at last reached
the end Of her arduous and tedious Jour.
ney.
didn't it,"
"Yes, indeed. It was a very gloomy
voyage. We started from Liverpool on
the Umbria in rain and arrived at New
York IN rain: The sea was very rough
and the weather rainy during the entire
trip. We only saw. tho sun fonr half q day
and then it was extremely bashiul about
making Its appearance"
"How about the tidal wave that gave
the Umbria such a shaking up?"
II didn't know q thing about It until Il
was all over. I was asleep at the time,
and suppose the noise Of hurrying feet
and the voices OF the officers giving com.
mands and the shouting Of the sailors
wakened me. I noticed the water in the
corridor and saw my sons shoes floating
about. l rang the electric bell, but as no
one responded I presumed that every
thing was all right, and retired again and
slept soundly. Frightened? Not in the
least. ! had confidence in the ship and
its officers, snd knew if there was any dan.
ger we would be appraised Of it in good
time. | was sorry for the officers, though,
They were greatly disappointed in expe.
riencing such rough weather. The JIM.
bria had just come of the docks at Liver
pool after having her bottom thoroughly
scraped. She had taken on very fine
coal to make steam fast witt the inten-
ton Of attempting to beat the record to
Sandy Hook, the officers feeling confident
that the steamer could make the trip, un.
der favorable circumstances, under six
days. aud you see how it turned out"
"Glad to get homer"
"Oh, certainly. l am always glad to see
my ftiends." Then with an expressive
shrug OF her shoulders she added, "but I
have learned to like Europe very much:
like it because II has been kind to me In
my artistic career, and like it-well, iust
because l like 1t. This is home, Of course,
and for that reason I can never forget it,
and in all my sravelS | have always felt
proud Of being an American. I don't
want you to think that my preference for
Eufope Is 81 afectation. l would be un-
grateful, indeed, did I not have a warm
place in my heart for the people who have
%applauded my triumphs'aud been so kind
and generous to me.
THAT. is quite 8 natural feeling. But
about your IFS abroad you have been.
absent some yeays, haven't you 2"
K LIFE ABROAD.
"Yes; 1t has been four years since I was
last home, and what eyentful yegrs they
have been, too; full of hard study, but
rewarded with eucceBs. About my csreer
in opera? Well, + understand you have
been advised OF everything worth men,
tioning in the last two years. In Italy l
sang in Milan, B~ologne, Rome, Venice,
Naples, Aquilla, Palermo, Campsni and
Ancona, and in Kharkof and Moecow,
Russia. Ny last engagements were in the
latter two Cities"
From what we have heard you must be
q, fsvorite with the Russians n
II am proud to say that I met with I'M
exampled success in that country, and
that my greatest artistic triumphs have
been scored there. Prior to my closiug
engagement in Moscow I sang in opera
for uix weeks in Khsrkoff, appearing in
Lucia, Trsyiats. Rigolette, Mula di Por-
tici ian old opera revived), Ernaui, Fra
Diavola aud the recent French opera
Lakme, which you have just had in this
country. My last appearance previous to
starting for home was in Moscow, in
concert, on Tune II, which, by tho way,
was my birthday. On that night / was
presented with an elegant silver set and
magnificent diamond earrings. They
never dolthingss by halves in Russia II
they like you.G$My social triumphs were
sa great as my artistic success, all my
spare time being taken up with fetes and
banquets given In my honor. The social
courtesies extended by my Russian friends
will always have 9 grateful remembrance
in my heart
rs eaking Of the operas in which you
have appeared, which is your ~iavorite 2"
swell" heaitatingly, " really do not
believe l have any favorite. I like them
all 80 well yet il I were called on to decide
I Think would select Fauat. I am study
ing a new opera, G%ioconda, which I pre-
fer above all others. l expect to sing it
this winter. It is very dramatic in action,
and 1 am sure it will be q SUCCESS"
about your audiences, Mrs. Rammels-
berg; that is their characteristics and the
peculiarities Of the Italian and Russian
compared with the English y
CHARACTERISTICS or AUDIENCES,
, I'm Russia the people are worry cordial
and enthuaiaatic II you please them, other.
!, wise they generally maintain a digni6sd
silence, which is nearly as crushing as be.